PFAS Product Manager at Arcwood Environmental in Indianapolis, IN

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

Arcwood is seeking a Manager, PFAS Product Management to lead the incubation, commercialization, and scale-up of PFAS-related service offerings and treatment solutions. This role serves as the business owner for priority PFAS growth initiatives, translating market opportunities into commercial offerings, pilot programs, partnerships, and repeatable operating models.

The successful candidate will connect commercial, operational, technical, regulatory, and executive stakeholders to accelerate growth while ensuring solutions are differentiated, profitable, and operationally executable. The role is suited to an entrepreneurial builder who can bring structure, pace, and accountability to opportunities that are still being defined.

Product Strategy & Portfolio Management

• Own the roadmap for Arcwood’s PFAS service and treatment portfolio.
• Evaluate customer needs, market opportunities, competitive activity, emerging technologies, and regulatory developments to identify growth priorities.
• Develop business cases, market assessments, investment recommendations, value propositions, customer segmentation, pricing frameworks, and go-to-market plans.

Commercialization & Business Incubation

• Lead priority PFAS offerings from concept through launch and early commercial scale-up.

• Establish and manage stage gates, launch plans, implementation timelines, decision requirements, and success metrics covering pipeline, pilots, conversion, launch milestones, customer adoption, and profitability.

• Coordinate pilot programs, demonstrations, and early customer deployments.

• Develop and manage partnerships with technology providers, equipment suppliers, engineering firms, installers, and channel partners.

• Create a repeatable operating model and transition proven offerings to the appropriate long-term comemrcial owner.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead cross-functional work across sales, operations, technical, regulatory, finance, legal, supply chain, and external partners.
• Drive alignment on priorities, resources, milestones, economics, risks, and critical decisions.
• Facilitate executive reviews and provide concise updates on progress, issues, and recommendations.
• Ensure commercial and operational readiness before broader market rollout.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Engage directly with customers to understand PFAS management, treatment, disposal, and compliance needs.
• Translate voice-of-customer insights into offering design, product enhancements, and new growth opportunities.
• Support strategic customer discussions, industry events, and partner meetings.
• Enable the commercial organization with clear positioning, sales tools, use cases, and proof points.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, Business, or a related field.

Experience

• Five or more years of experience in product management, commercialization, business development, strategy, consulting, or complex program leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without relying on direct authority.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, project management, and executive communication capabilities.
• Ability to convert ambiguous opportunities into structured workplans, decisions, and measurable outcomes.

Preferred

• Experience in environmental services, water treatment, remediation, specialty chemicals, industrial services, or infrastructure markets.
• Familiarity with PFAS treatment and destruction technologies, AFFF management, industrial wastewater, remediation, or environmental compliance.
• Experience launching a new service, product, capability, or business line.
• Experience evaluating and managing technology or channel partnerships.

Overview

About Arcwood

Every advancement—from the products we use to the medicines and technologies we depend on—creates waste that must be handled responsibly. For more than 50 years, Arcwood Environmental has helped organizations across the United States manage the byproducts of progress safely and thoughtfully. With deep expertise and innovative waste management technology across a growing nationwide footprint, Arcwood protects people, communities, and the environment through work that often happens behind the scenes.

Our Values

We move forward together, one team with a shared purpose, counting on each other every day. Our core values demonstrate how we work together to deliver value for our customers, putting them at the center of all we do:

• Lead with Safety: We uphold the highest safety and compliance standards to protect our teams, our customers and the communities that count on us.
• Solve Problems Creatively: We push for better – advancing technologies, processes, and ideas that protect human health and the environment.
• Own It Together: We are individually and collectively accountable for our work and our impact, knowing that progress is only achieved by working together – with our customers, and with each other.
• Deliver for Customers: We put customers at the center of all we do. When we live our values – lead with safety, solving problems creatively, and owning our work together – the result is clear: we deliver exceptional value for our customers.

We’ve reached a unique point as a company: big enough to deliver broad capability and consistent performance, while striving to be nimbler and more responsive to our customers’ evolving needs. Come join Arcwood and be part of our legacy of environmental leadership!